The mother of synonyms: on the Meotica species of the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Oxypodini)
Author
Assing, Volker
Author
Vogel, Jürgen
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Linzer biologische Beiträge
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10.5281/zenodo.3738506
685869d3-363a-4373-8250-4d5abe080321
0253-116X
3738506
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Meotica hispanica
SCHEERPELTZ
,
1954
Meotica hispanica
SCHEERPELTZ, 1954a: 158
.
Meotica hispanica
:
PACE (1983)
.
C o m m e n t: The original description is based on an unspecified number of
syntypes
from "Mittelspanien (Sierra Guadarrama)" (
SCHEERPELTZ 1954a
).
PACE (1983)
studied two
syntypes
, which he regarded as "l'holotypus e l'allotypus" and provided illustrations of the aedeagus and the spermatheca.
D i a g n o s i s: According to SCHEERPELTZ (1954), the abdominal tergite VI is distinctly impressed anteriorly. For illustrations of the distinctive primary sexual characters see
PACE (1983)
.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Central Spain.